Artist:
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Inoue Kinga
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Title:
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Drifting in a Small Boat
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Date:
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Edo period
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Medium:
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Ink on paper
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Dimensions:
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26 1/16 x 10 9/16 in. (66.2 x 26.83 cm) (image)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
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Location:
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Gallery 223
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Inoue Kinga made his living as a Confucian teacher at a private academy in Edo (Tokyo). As such, he was able to lead the ideal life of a literati artist--painting for pure self-expression rather than for profit. His paintings, accordingly, lack the polish of professional painter's, but have a purity and simplicity that more directly reflects his personality and poetic interests. Kinga painted this minimal landscape for his friend, Sanshi, to whom he refers in the poem:
Drifting in a little boat with someone familiar
The waters of the lake have rippled for twenty years--
I also enjoy the smoky haze from a rocky waterfall;
Sand bars to the north and south form a road to meet my friend.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Kinga, Inoue
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Role:
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Painter
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Life Dates:
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1732 - 1784
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature; Stamps 'Painted and inscribed by Kinga for Sanshi's correction', in ink at top; 'Kohan, Junkyo no in, Shin'
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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towering plateau dominates the landscape to the left; winding river flows around a small peninsula at LRC; a man in a boat sits to the left of the peninsula along the shoreline
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Japan, Edo, , Tokyo
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Accession #:
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98.18.3
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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